What lasting legacies of early modern globalization are evident today

• The Atlantic trading network
• The Pacific trading network between the Americas and East Asia
• The influence of European civilizations, especially in the Americas and the
Philippines
• The engagement of even remote peoples, such as those of Siberia, in world trade networks
• The large populations in the Americas of peoples of African and European origins;
• African cultural influences in the Americas
• Ideas of race, particularly of “blackness”
• The demographic and economic legacy of the slave trade in West Africa

The  ancient egyptians  who  built the pyramids  may have been  able  to move massive stone blocks across the desert by wetting the sand in front of a contraption  built  to pull the heavy objects